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Hockey harmed by battle of egos that kept players off the icehttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan/15/hockey-harmed-battle-egos-ice
The four-month lockout of NHL players has harmed the sport's image but it is the fans who have lost most<p>The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan/09/nhl-lockout-votes-deal-owners-players" title="">lockout of NHL players</a> that dragged on for four months and cost the league more than half the season was a battle over money, as all collective bargaining negotiations are. More than that, though, it became a battle of egos, which is why it took so long to resolve issues that should have been agreed sometime last summer.</p><p>Gary Bettman was absolutely set on winning, because he had won his first two negotiations as NHL commissioner – one costing more than half a season, the second costing an entire season. But his opponent Donald Fehr, of the NHL Players' Association, also had a perfect record – albeit in another sport.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan/15/hockey-harmed-battle-egos-ice">Continue reading...</a>US sportsTue, 15 Jan 2013 13:59:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan/15/hockey-harmed-battle-egos-icePhotograph: Darryl Dyck/APAndrew Nicholson watches the Vancouver Canucks training for the start of the season on Saturday. Photograph: Darryl Dyck/APPhotograph: Darryl Dyck/APAndrew Nicholson watches the Vancouver Canucks training for the start of the season on Saturday. Photograph: Darryl Dyck/APJohn Feinstein for the Washington Post2013-01-15T13:59:03ZNHL season is slip sliding awayhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/oct/30/ice-hockey-nhl-lockout
Owners' reluctance to share revenues with players threatens to kill ice hockey for 2012-13<p>Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the NHL, found time last Wednesday to take part in a much-hyped news conference announcing that the New York Islanders will be moving to Brooklyn in the fall of 2015.</p><p>Maybe by then there will actually be ice hockey again.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/oct/30/ice-hockey-nhl-lockout">Continue reading...</a>NHLUS sportsSportTue, 30 Oct 2012 14:03:18 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/oct/30/ice-hockey-nhl-lockoutPhotograph: Justin K. Aller/Getty Images North AmericaA Pittsburgh Penguins fan expresses himself during a baseball game last month. Photograph: Justin K. Aller/Getty Images North AmericaPhotograph: Justin K. Aller/Getty Images North AmericaA Pittsburgh Penguins fan expresses himself during a baseball game last month. Photograph: Justin K. Aller/Getty Images North AmericaJohn Feinstein for the Washington Post2012-10-30T14:03:18ZThe disappearance of Tiger Woodshttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/feb/07/tiger-woods-john-feinstein
On his way to winning 14 majors, the world's most famous sportsman disappeared into the crowds that followed him everywhere. Now, rocked by a scandal that no one saw coming, he has vanished again. John Feinstein, America's greatest sportswriter, retraces his rise and fall, and finds clues we might have missed<p>Tiger Woods has always been The Invisible Man. To him, the world was a perfect place when he could walk down the 18th fairway on a Sunday afternoon drinking in the cheers of his adoring fans, collect a large trophy and a massive cheque, say a few words on the engrossing subject of birdies and bogeys in the media tent and then – poof! – become invisible until it was time to tee it up again.</p><p>Sure, there were occasional Tiger-spottings: Tiger front row at a basketball game; Tiger laughing it up some place with another sports celebrity such as Roger Federer, Michael Jordan or Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning. Even those rare appearances felt staged, as if they were part of the non-stop image-crafting being done by Tiger and his managers at IMG. In fact, the celebrity connections Tiger made were usually business-related: he, Federer and Jordan were all Nike endorsers, and he and Manning were both represented by IMG. Coincidence? Hardly.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/feb/07/tiger-woods-john-feinstein">Continue reading...</a>Tiger WoodsGolfSportSun, 07 Feb 2010 00:07:34 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/feb/07/tiger-woods-john-feinsteinJohn Feinstein2010-02-07T00:07:34Z